Summary
Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected U.S. president since World War II, except for himself in 2017.
While his immigration policies and government downsizing have support, controversial moves—like ending birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico—face strong opposition.
Economic concerns, particularly rising prices, remain a major issue for voters.
Analysts say Trump’s popularity will likely hinge on broader economic and immigration policies, with potential political consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections.
He’s the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he’s been elected twice.
That’s all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.
Least popular, but not unpopular enough to vote against.
About 29% of Americans voted for Trump. If we look only at the people who voted, then about 49% voted for him. Stop trying to make it seem like it’s the people’s fault. The electoral system is clearly broken.
The electoral system is broken.
But people in swing states stayed home. The buck stops there.
Doesn’t matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
So he’s more popular this time than last time
Why?
Because the electorate is about 51% morons and self-interested people willing to let the country burn for tax cuts that will only benefit about 5% of them.
And yet he still got re-elected. We are the dumbest nation comprised of the most idiotic people to ever exist in history.
This is what I keep saying to my friends when we argue politics
We can no longer just say that Dumpster Don is an idiot
We can now say that the entire US is one giant collective idiot
The nation is dumb … so is it any wonder that they have a dumb leader?
Let’s just hope that we don’t use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
Maybe some of those people who he’s not popular with should have fucking voted.
There were a whole lot of low-info voters and certainly a lot of idiots fell for that gEnOcIdE jOe nonsense, too.
People think that “politics doesn’t matter” or fall for the “bothsides” thing honestly think it doesn’t matter if someone like donvict gets into office…and unfortunately all of us are likely to find out…
They were too insignificant to listen to. If you think they’re significant enough to blame, you should have listened to them.
The enemy is both weak and strong.
No you fucking ingrate. Democrats would have lost if they listened to them anyway. The tik tok voters were never going to vote for democrats, that would be against their sense of virtue. Harris fucked up a ton by not distancing herself from conservatives and Biden but even she tried to throw the Palestinian protesters a bone at one point and there wasn’t a singular budge.
The reason the DNC lost is many. The blame for the end of US democracy is easily spread around because there are many people deserving of blame. It doesn’t really matter anymore anyway though does it?
Not that I have the power to do anything about it, but everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
Those in power did. Here we are.
is this another one of those famously accurate polls we were subjected to during the election?
But … the last guy who was not even on the ballot is as old as Trump. And eggs are expensive. And another country is waging war, sorry, gEnOcIdE. And Kamala sounds foreign and I don’t know what she would do because I prefer to revel in ignorance instead of finding out myself.
I agree that there is genocide happening. I also understand that the guy who got elected is actively in favor of it and wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it if everyone in the country begged him, while the person who lost was trying to balance millions of conflicting priorities (and sadly those dying are not the top priorities) and the result isn’t what I want. There are other things to consider after you realize you’re not going to get what you want.
He won with 1% of the vote, 35% of eligible voters stayed home.
Yeah, that was my point.
I understand, I was just throwing actual numbers out because it pisses me off too.
Maybe people in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet should stop relying on the “Democratic” process.
Lame duck (maybe), so I don’t think he cares about popularity. He’s pushing out EO’s as fast as he can, and many of them are idiotic.
The fact that he isnt even less popular than his last election scares me. The guy has proven himself time and time again in the spotlight to be evil, moronic, really any negative adjective you can think of, and he still has supporters. More, even. How? *
Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I’m sure it’s going to drop hard in a week.
And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?
Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives
…and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed
That’s the whole point. Deflect real controversy with stupid sound bites.
The how is people who disprove of him being more than willing to allow him to win an election because they say there is no difference between him and his opponent. That is up till he is elected and then they suddenly realize how much worse he actually is.
Yeah, the people that believed the trolls and the fake left and the Enlightened Centrists ™ going on about gEnOcIdE and bOtHsIdEs are going to have Pikachu face for the next 4 years (if we are lucky that it’s only that long).
Enlightened Centrist??? Centrists tend to be the pragmatic ones who looked to vote for biden and then harris and the genociden biden always seem to identify with far left in my experience here anyway. Heck I don’t even consider myself a centrist so much but I am pragmatic and I do find when talking to the far left I definitely appear center to them and to the right (because there is not moderate right that I can see) I am apparently the biggest woke, lefty, communist type like biden or obama.
That label is more aimed at the bothsiderists that claim they are Above It All ™ and like to WellACKCHUALLY everything and everyone. Their favorite tactic is usually to talk about “extremes on both sides”, and pull out their Tone Police card and lecture anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh on civility (this while extremist right wingers are doing things like smashing into the Capitol building and smearing feces everywhere. But the Democrats were seen violating Queensberry Rules, so it’s time for a lecture on rules that only Democrats are held to). Another is to claim that they are an “independent”.
All of this is to the benefit of the actual extremes on the far right. The extreme left is barely a thing. In the United States, anyway. Sure there may be some extremely loud people that seem to be driven by identity politics only and doing a lot to make new Republicans (if you ask me), but they are not really representative of anything, and certainly not the Democratic Party…
yeah I guess the loud portion here was trumpeting how all the lack of votes for kamala was all do to not appeasing them enough and there was a lack of voting somewhere as it was down.
I need to know the content of the footnote.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Also, until the Democratic party engages in serious reform that throws out the old leadership who keeps collaborating with fascists, slashing our safety nets, and throwing taxpayer money
andat private for profit organizations we’re going to keep getting these waves of fascists taking over every other electione; autocorrect is reactionary /s
Doesn’t matter. The GOP hold all three branches of government and will do whatever he tells them to do.
Fun thing about the GOP is that they are all rats waiting for the ship to sink. The minute they see that trump is weaker/unpopular among their base, they’ll jump ship and try to sell him out
Don’t give me hope
I’m waiting to watch Tea Party 2.0. If donvict dies or in some other way the spell breaks like it did under Dumbya…they’ll pretend they “never heard of her” when it comes to donvict, and you suddenly won’t be able to find any Republicans.
That’s until they find their next China White to mainline. They ain’t gonna settle for the likes of Romney and Jeb, that’s for sure. They’ll need someone even worse than donvict. They went from Ronnie Raygun - who was just fucking awful already, to W (arguably worse, though he probably did less damage than Ronnie Raygun), to diaper donvict.
I don’t know how viable that actually is, a decade of Trump flags and Trump shirts and Trump merchandise, and decades of Trump branding everywhere before that. The Trump cult is in too deep.
The GOP winners will probably be the ones that poach the Trump brand as “we are Trump’s chosen ones to carry out Trump’s vision for America”, until his cultural significance wanes.
I honestly think there will be spontaneous dancing in the streets or wherever people are at if they learn of donnie’s passing.
because the dems put out candidates somehow even less popular.
Republicans do evil things? Democrats are to blame for not having stopped them.
Democrats do evil things? Well, you can hardly blame people for electing Republicans, then.
sorry if i seem one-sided its because of the genocide and the shitshow defacto appointment strategy from the dnc et al… there is a reason the left infights more than the right- there’s a logic to attempting to speak to the side that is ostensibly closer to your ideals. what has yelling at or about trump accomplished, btw?
The fact that you’re getting downvotes for this gives me little hope for the future of our country.
Balkanization is too good for the US.
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of course its the people who are the problem… democrats blaming voters is pretty standard procedure.
- Fascists say they’ll do fascist things once elected
- Americans elect fascists
- Fascists do fascist things
- How could Democrats do this???
If you couldn’t see all this coming from a mile away and with the experience of living through his previous term, yeah, it’s your own gd fault.
I’m not even a Democrat it’s just how the world views Americans 🤷🏽♂️
and its a great tragedy because i prefer to believe there’s a good will that powerful interests undermine in very sophisticated and underhanded ways. it is the game of a duopoly to split the electorate and set citizen against citizen- we see how identity politics has been revealed in so many ways as either vulnerabilities to be usurped or left as poisoned pills for folks to take up and be delegitimized by. attack dogs aren’t born that way, they’re created… and fwiw, there are a lot of people who just want to have a chance to experience this “land of the free” and all the freedoms and experiences they’re so increasingly priced out of.
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no of course not… i am not a republican or a democrat.
conspiracy theory word salad
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keep playing hot potato with decline, your leaders don’t represent your interests.
I literally have no idea what you’re talking about.
The root of the problem is that too many people view the job as a popularity contest. The most effective person for the job may not have the best personality, or be the one you would like to have a beer with.
Elections are and have always been popularity contests.
Democracy isn’t for picking leaders, it’s the process by which leaders absolve themselves of responsibility for their actions.
“Don’t blame me, the voters put me here.”
Voter suppression should be somewhere in this conversation eventually too, but, yeah, until the Democratic party sees some huge reforms and dumps a bunch of the electeds and campaign consultants and party staffers that led us to this point they’re going to keep getting wiped out every couple of election cycles
The really unfortunate part is that losing to Donald Trump makes a lot of the most vocal Democratic party supporters completely lose their minds and start attacking anyone who tries to have a conversation about why Democratic candidates lose, so, yeah, expect to get a lot of personal attacks and trolling for saying this
He was unpopular when voted in…inconsequential reporting
Don’t worry, he’ll get less popular along the way.
Cool I sure wish my rights weren’t being taken away
smae
Note approval ratings in the USA start with Truman so this is the lowest approval rating period.
